About a decade ago, the musician Hrishikesh Hirway had a vision. Inspired by the work of the English composer Benjamin Britten – and, more recently, its interpolation by the filmmaker Wes Anderson in ...

At The Rite of Spring's Paris premiere in 1913, the audience rioted. The broken rhythms, repetitive notes and clashing chords of Igor Stravinsky's masterpiece shocked the patrons of the Théâtre de ...

Song Exploder is an immensely satisfying podcast with a deceptively simple premise. Created and hosted by musician Hrishikesh Hirway, each episode features an artist breaking down one of their tracks, ...

In this edition of the Song Exploder podcast adapted for The Frame, Julia Holter joins Hrishikesh Hirway to dissect her song, "Horns Surrounding Me." Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician and composer who ...

For the past few years, Hrishikesh Hirway has made waves as the host of Song Exploder, a wildly popular podcast that allows musicians to deconstruct the process for some of their most popular songs.

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 2014, a new music podcast called Song Exploder was launched, hosted by the velvet-voiced musician and producer Hrishikesh ...

Have you ever heard Weezer's episode of Song Exploder? It's one of the most fucked-up, confounding and ultimately inspiring descriptions of the creative process ever, single-handedly making the case ...

HRISHIKESH HIRWAY: You're listening to "Song Exploder," where musicians take apart their songs and, piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. My name is Hrishikesh Hirway. MARTÍNEZ: And he ...

On this week's episode of the 'Song Exploder' podcast, Lorde goes in depth on 'Melodrama''s "Sober," a track she conceived of after a "wild and fluorescent" summer in New Zealand -- "that first… By ...